Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season on the Pomona-Pitzer Football team, where he plays cornerback and on special teams...2014: SCIAC All-Academic team...Played in five games, while missing four with an injury after beginning the year as a starting cornerback...Forced two fumbles in the first two weekends against MIT and Rhodes...Had a season-high four tackles against Rhodes...2013: SCIAC All-Academic team selection...Saw extensive action in the defensive backfield...Totaled 19 tackles, four pass break-ups and a forced fumble...Had a season-high six tackles and forced a fumble against Cal Lutheran, while breaking up two passes...Also had three tackles and two pass break-ups against Occidental...High School: Attended Mount Carmel High School, where he was a member of the football, track and field and soccer teams...Was ninth in his class academically, and was an AP Scholar, an Illinois State Scholar and Posse Scholar...Personal: Attending Pomona College, where he majors in biology (specializing in pre-med)...Lists "Pan-Africanism and the Black Radical Tradition" with Sid Lemelle and "Animal Physiology" with Melissa Petreaca as the most interesting courses he has taken while at Pomona...President of Building Leaders on Campus (BLOC), Exec Board Member of the Students of Color Alliance (SOCA), and a member of Kappa Delta Fraternity...Father is a police officer, and mother is a finance manager at NBC/Telemundo Chicago...Has one brother...Favorite athletes are Marshall Faulk, Michael Jordan, Dwyane Wade and Muhammad Ali...Favorite movies and The Lion King, Friday and Blade, while his favorite book is Life of Pi...Lists Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama and Bishop Arthur M. Brazier as the public figures he most admires...Plans to attend medical school to become a reconstructive surgeon...Spent the spring semester of 2014 abroad in Brazil and concluded his trip by attending a World Cup game...Chose Pomona College because "it is a place where I can do everything I love. I can be a pre-med, football-playing actor. This isn't possible at other colleges and universities."